Quotes from Rick Riordan

I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher

She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy.Yes, that sounded good.

Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.

Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me.

Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. "No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.

Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.

I want some time without you organic life forms.

And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?

So I saved your life, and you repaid me by raising Kronos. That's fair.

She sacrificed her life to make things right," Mitchell grumbled. "She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

Some risks are worth taking, even if it means losing a life.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

Frank Zhang: lumbering klutz, child of Mars, part-time pachyderm.

Once he'd even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Time Square to read: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO... accidentally, of course.

I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

I like to have a simple workplace.